So for whatever reason I decided reciently to self torture myself and play through Other M again. It's pretty much the same godawful garbage as I remember, but I occasionally like to look on the bright side of things. If you wade through the trash there are some good aspects that I'd like to see return in the series at some point.

0% Hard mode: This was one of the few indications that anyone on the development team had ever played a Metroid game before. Removing any possibility of picking up an upgrade is a great idea. I'd prefer it to be seperate from standard hard mode though; say have normal and hard as options from the start, and then 0% hard as an unlockable mode for beating the game or what have you.

Agile Samus: So they botched the exicution pretty bad with the whole sensemove nonsense, but having Samus flip around and use her jets for acrobatic manuvers was admitedly pretty cool. With some revamping it might be cool to see a dodging system return. Even a 2D game could have a Symphony of the Night-esque backdash/backflip move.

Charge Accel: Like every other power up in Other M this was rendered moot by the core mechanics, but it could work in a real Metroid game. It's certianly a slightly more practical way to pad out percentages than 70 extra power bombs.

Speed booster and shine sparking in 3D: Self explanitory, really.

And... that's more or less it. But maybe I forgot something. Do you feel like Othet M got some things right? Let's be positive for once, internet!

I was actually depressed for quite a while after the game came out. It went something like this:

-New metroid announced at E3, so excited-Eagerly awaiting all info on the new game, drooling over trailers-Difficulty sleeping for a few days before release-Asking for time off from work for some fictitious reason-Waiting outside store for a few mins before they open-First playthrough = this game's cool but it has some flaws-Second playthrough = this game has some major flaws-Third playthrough = the denial is over, this game blows goats-Anger-Rage-Despair-Apathy

in all honesty, from a gameplay standpoint alone, I... like the game. I ended up playing through it multiple times. There are plenty of stupid moments like all the where's waldo pixel hunts and that travesty of a ridley scene, but between all of those crap moments I was having fun with the game. The flip-between-first-and-third-person mechanic just made things needlessly complicated. It should just be one or the other.

-I liked how it felt vaguely like a 2D metroid game from a gameplay standpoint. It has many of the hallmarks, including shinesparking, wall jumping, all the upgrades you're used to. the sensemove dodging was a little overdone, but if it was polished up it would be fine.-As bad as the writing was for many of the story sequences, i personally thought the voice acting was pretty good.-I agree about the charge-accel; the energy parts also reminded me of Zelda games. Not really necessary but I guess it let them hid more pickups around.-I felt like some of the pickups were hidden a little better in this game than the Prime games. Maybe I'm just easily fooled though.-The music was solid (Though, there should have been more of it. There are quite a few parts of the game that are in relative silence)

-As bad as the writing was for many of the story sequences, i personally thought the voice acting was pretty good.

I... really? I'm inclined to be kinder to the voice actors given the horrid material and likely awful directing but even then "ok all things considered" is about as far as I'll go.

What I mean to say is I feel like the voice actors themselves did their job well. It's the material they were given to work with that was crap. You can't blame the voice actors for the terrible writing.

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Really hard for me to say one way or the other on this since they mark their exact positon on your map. Corruption did the same thing but at least they made you work for it.

Well, There were a fair few powerups that gave me trouble to find even though they are marked. I had to ask for help here for a few of em :p